His kingdom consisted probably of Egypt only, as far as the First Cataract, but to this he added Cyprus, and his influence was great in Cyrene.

The school was so called after Cyrene, the birthplace of Aristippus.

It was also known as Pentapolis, the " five cities " being Cyrene ( near the village of Shahhat ) with its port of Apollonia ( Susa ), Arsinoe ( Taucheira ), Berenice ( Benghazi ) and Barca ( Marj ).

J. Wenham asserts that Luke was " one of the Seventy, the Emmaus disciple, Lucius of Cyrene and Paul's kinsman.

Eratosthenes the Cyrene was the first to divide the surface of the earth into lines of latitude and longitude.

It was usually attributed in Antiquity to Cinaethon of Sparta, but in one source was said to have been stolen from Musaeus by Eugamon or Eugammon of Cyrene ( see Cyclic poets ).

The following year he was elected quaestor and served in Crete and Cyrene.

In circa 240 BC, Erastothenes of Cyrene deduced that the Earth was round and measured the circumference of the Earth, using trigonometry and the angle of the Sun at more than one latitude in Egypt.

After the death of Jugurtha, western Numidia was added to the lands of Bocchus, king of Mauretania, while the remainder ( excluding Cyrene and its locality ) continued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.

She was said to be mother of Lycus and Nycteus by Poseidon ; of Eurypylus ( or Eurytus ), King of Cyrene, and Lycaon, also by Poseidon ; and of Lycus and Chimaereus by Prometheus.

He was counted among the Calydonian hunters and the Argonauts, and was connected with the legend of the foundation of Cyrene.

Euphemus was mythologically linked to the Greek colonization of Libya and foundation of Cyrene.

Some sources state that he was the father of Cyrene, alternately known as his granddaughter through Hypseus.

In Greek mythology, as recorded in Pindar's 9th Pythian ode, Cyrene ( or Kyrene, ) (" sovereign queen ") was the daughter of Hypseus, King of the Lapiths, although some myths state that her father was actually the river-god Peneus and she was a nymph rather than mortal.

Cyrene was a fierce huntress, called by Nonnus a " deer-chasing second Artemis, the girl lionkiller.

Other stories say that Cyrene was not wrestling with a lion but instead tending her sheep along the marsh-meadow of the river Pineios, and that Apollo later transformed her into a nymph to grant her a longer life.

With Ares, Cyrene ( if indeed this is the same Cyrene ) was the mother of Diomedes of Thrace.

Through Hypseus she was grandmother of Cyrene, one of the best known lovers of Apollo.

A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios (), " ever close follower of the flocks ", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping ; he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene.

Cyrene, Libya, birthplace of Aristippus

The school was so called after Cyrene, the birthplace of Aristippus.

It also attracted scholars from all over the Mediterranean such as Eratosthenes of Cyrene.

Using this measuring instrument Eratosthenes of Cyrene ( ca.

* Chronicle ( Χρονικά ), a Greek history in verse from the fall of Troy in the 12th century BC to roughly 143 BC ( although later it was extended as far as 109 BC ), and based on previous works by Eratosthenes of Cyrene.

* A twelve-book essay about Homer's Catalogue of Ships, also based on Eratosthenes of Cyrene and Demetrius of Scepsis, dealing with Homeric geography and how it has changed along the centuries.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene ( 276-196 BC ) deduced the circumference of the earth with remarkable accuracy.

Cyrene is also mentioned in the second and third hymns of Callimachus as well as in The Poet and the Women ( written by Aristophanes ) whence Mnesilochus comments that he " can't see a man there at all-only Cyrene " when setting eyes upon the poet Agathon who emerges from his house to greet Euripides and himself dressed in women's clothing.

He appears, however, at last to have returned to Cyrene, and there he spent his old age.

Theodorus of Cyrene proved the irrationality of the square roots of whole numbers up to 17, but stopped there, probably because the algebra he used couldn't be applied to the square root of numbers greater than 17.

Silphium figured so prominently in the wealth of Cyrene that the plant appeared on coins minted there.

From there he crossed to Cyrene where the famous Hellenic colony in Africa was in dire condition following a vicious and exhausting civil war of nearly seven years ' duration.

Isador, sensing that the Captain's mind is troubled, realises why, and tells him that there was nothing he could have done to save his home planet of Cyrene.

; five of these pierced tiles on either side would have amply lighted the interior of the ceila, and the amount of rain passing through ( a serious element to be considered in a country where torrential rains occasionally fall ) would not be very great 01 more than could be retained to dry up in the ceila sunk pavement In favor of both these methods of lighting the interior of th ~ cella, the sarcophagus tomb at Cyrene, about 20 ft. ( 6m ) long, carved in imitation of a temple, has been adduced, because, on the tor of the roof and in its centre, there is a raised coping, and a similar feature is found on a tomb found near Delos ; an example from Crete now in the British Museum shows a pierced tile on each side of the roof, and a large number of pierced tiles have been found in Pompeii, some of them surrounded with a rim identical with that of the marble tiles at Bassae.

The Jewish Encyclopedia says this about the Cyrene massacres: " By this outbreak Libya was depopulated to such an extent that a few years later new colonies had to be established there ( Eusebius, " Chronicle " from the Armenian, fourteenth year of Hadrian ).

The Cyrenaics were an ultra-hedonist Greek school of philosophy founded in the 4th century BCE, supposedly by Aristippus of Cyrene, although many of the principles of the school are believed to have been formalized by his grandson of the same name, Aristippus the Younger.

Ultimately, the city fell under Arab conquest in 643, by which time little was left of the opulent Roman cities of Northern Africa ; the ruins of Cyrene are located near the modern village of Shahhat.

The names of Hamilcars ’ parents are unknown, and it is hypothesized that the family may have come from Cyrene and was part of the landed aristocracy of Carthge.

* The sons of Simon of Cyrene are named as if they might have been early Christian figures known to Mark's intended audience ( Brown et al.

The Cyrenaics were an ultra-hedonist Greek school of philosophy founded in the 4th century BCE, supposedly by Aristippus of Cyrene, although many of the principles of the school are believed to have been formalized by his grandson of the same name, Aristippus the Younger.

In Greek mythology, the Battiadae are descendants of Battus, the founder of Cyrene.

Besides Sparta, the main discovery sites are the islands of Rhodes and Samos, as well as Taranto, Etruscan necropolises, and Cyrene, which was at first considered to be the original source of the pottery.

A depiction of the nymph Cyrene and a tondo with a rider with a scrolling tendril growing from his head ( name vase of the Rider Painter ) are exceptional.

A number of distinguished men too are named, whom he is said to have drawn away from Theophrastus, Aristotle of Cyrene, and others, and attached to himself ; among others Crates the Cynic, and Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school.

12 – 14 ), though his descriptions of the cruelties perpetrated by the Jews at Cyrene and on the island of Cyprus are probably exaggerated.

There are still five more scenarios that are sandboxes: Amida, Corduba, Cyrene, Djedu and Roma.